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Bidding is now open for our Fine Art, Jewelry, Design & Asian Art auction, Day 2 of our three-day December sale, featuring paintings, prints, sculpture, fine jewelry, watches, porcelain and Asian works of art. Highlights include a George Gardner Symons 'Winter River' oil on canvas, an 18K gold Tiffany & Co. Mark Coupe resonator watch and a Dale Chihuly "Persian Set," alongside works by Bridget Riley, Joan Miró, Rufino Tamayo and Chen Chi-Kwan, and more. Auction is Wednesday, December 2nd at 1 PM CST. Local pickup is December 7th, 8th and 9th from 1 to 5 PM at 5263 Edina Industrial Blvd, Edina, MN. Shipping is available on all lots.
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Lot 304

Stanley William Hayter “Unstable Woman” Engraving

Estimate: $1,500 - $2,500
Starting Bid
$700

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Signed lower right and numbered lower left in graphite. 

Limited Edition: 30/30

 

Image: 15 3/4" Tall x 20 1/4" Wide 

Frame: 27" Tall x 33" Wide 

 

Condition: Toning to the paper. Foxing is present on the frame, but does not appear to be affecting the print. The graphite used for the signature and numbering is fading. Please see images for details. 

 

Artist Bio: Stanley William Hayter (1901-1988) did as much as anyone in the twentieth century to revive printmaking as an original art. Trained in chemistry and geology in London, he worked for an oil company in the Persian Gulf before moving to Paris in 1926 to paint. The following year he opened the workshop that became Atelier 17, where artists worked side by side and used engraving and etching as a means of discovery rather than reproduction. Picasso, Miró, Ernst and Giacometti were among those who worked there.

When war closed Paris, Hayter moved Atelier 17 to New York in 1940, and over the next decade it became a meeting point between the European Surrealists in exile and young Americans including Jackson Pollock, Louise Bourgeois and Robert Motherwell. His own engraving, driven by the swing of the burin across the copper, fed directly into the language of Abstract Expressionism. Hayter made "Unstable Woman" in New York in 1946 and 1947, combining engraving and soft ground etching on a single plate in one of the most ambitious prints of his American years.

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